Passing variable instead of input ID to autocomplete

[staggan]

Hello

I have a working autocomplete function which populates a list from a remote database, which works nicely. However, I need to be able to pass my function a variable instead of the input id of my text input field....

Here is my code...

 $(function() {
 
      $("#input").autocomplete({
          source: "search.php?field=field1"
      });
  });
 
 
<p><b>input:</b><input type="text"  input id = "input" name="field1" size="60" ><br>
 
[/code}
 

Instead of my function using "#input" I want it to get the input id of the calling input so that I can have multiple input fields using the same autocomplete function.....
 
Any help would be appreciated
 
Thanks